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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1888
Page
4
Publication notices provide subscription prices for the Boston Post including daily and weekly options, with yearly, half year, quarter, and monthly rates. The notice lists the Post Publishing Company address on Congress Street and references managerial contact details, implying second class mail status and payment obligations.
The notice lists where to find the Financial and Commercial Departments on pages six and seven while ship news appears on page three. The arrangement guides readers to the correct sections for financial, commercial, and maritime items.
Fuller reports from the Northwest that storm damage is severe with communications cut in Minnesota since Christmas and scarce light and fuel forcing hay and straw usage. Some towns face actual food shortages as winter ravages the region, a severity eastern readers may not grasp.
Congress faces a choice as New York presses for harbor work to deepen the bar while Boston also claims priority. The Servia ran aground after tides failed to lift her over the bar, though she was freed and reached her dock safely, underscoring the need for targeted spending at this key port.
Lord Ripon and Mr. Morey plan a Dublin reception that dwarfs past honors for Lord Hartington and Mr. Goschen. The welcoming committee features four peers, Trinity College professors, many Dublin lawyers, Q C s, deputy-lieutenants, magistrates, and prominent merchants. The New York Tribune notes the formidability of the list, suggesting Conservatives will struggle to counter the display. The group may not all back Gladstone's Home Rule but oppose the coercion act under Balfour.
The common council considers paying aldermen and councilmen to handle rising city business. The piece warns salaries may attract non-ideal candidates and reduce public service to paid leisure, while criticizing dinners, free rides, and junkets that currently tempt aspirants for city council honors.
The military party in England demands higher naval expenditure with Duke of Cambridge and Lord Charitues Berxestorp arguing the case before the London Chamber of Commerce. The chamber has taken up the issue, hearing from prominent backers of stronger coastal and naval defenses.
A government figure resigned his post after plans were thwarted while public opinion remains uncertain. Lord Ran Dolph Churchill has criticized the war and navy departments for their extravagance, fueling a market for economy measures amid ongoing political debate.
Congressman Butterworth of Ohio backs measures to settle the US Canada fisheries dispute by removing obstacles to unrestricted trade. The plan, praised by some as a path to broader markets, clashes with a protectionist stance and prompts questions about extending the policy to other nations.
The article weighs a proposed national one cent local letter rate against the existing two cent delivery model. It notes local offices show a large shortfall without cross-subsidies and that income from postal cards and other sources may fill the gap, while cautioning that the plan is not as simple as figures suggest.
A Danish note describes the Anti Celibacy Assurance Society, a scheme for unmarried women who pay a premium and receive a lump sum at age forty if still single. The piece explores possible outcomes, moral questions, and social impact, suggesting a clash between matrimony incentives and gender expectations.
The article argues against lowering the one cent postage, warning it would require heavier congressional appropriations and rob Peter to pay Paul. It favors expanding service first, noting benefits from later deliveries, evening home delivery, and branch post offices to improve city service before any rate reduction.
Toynbee Hall, once mocked by socialists for impractical reforms, gains practical support as the Wholesalery Society votes £50 to its funds. The donation signals affirmation of the hall’s mission to educate and assist the poorer classes in London’s East End.
The text notes continued steady effort and disputed yet visible good achieved, with new proof of popular confidence serving as fresh encouragement to beneficent labors.
The Dakota teacher who guided her pupils through snowdrifts to a farmhouse with twine received nine marriage proposals from men who had never met her. The New York World calls these tributes courage and fidelity, while critics deem them foolish cranks seeking notoriety.
A vivid Boston harbor vignette describes a white, cracked ice landscape. Ships leave no tracks as ice piles rise around piers, gulls cluster on moving floes, and frost decorates public buildings. The author recalls 1844 ice canals and notes wind shifts, ebbing ice, and sidewalk snow enforcement.
The Cecilia Society presented the second season concert at Music Hall with a lengthy program featuring Foote The Wreck of the Hesperus, Mendelssohn songs, Schubert Psalm 23, and Brahms Drinking Glee. Soloists Jennie Vernholz F M Dunton and Mary H How, with G W Want W L Whitney, received mixed notices. while the chorus showed vigor, some balance issues and a weaker Bach recitative performance marred the overall impression.
A letter describes slipping on icy sidewalks and critiques make shift methods using ashes or sawdust. The author notes ash dust leaves rug marks, favors sawdust, and urges proper ice removal. He contrasts past enforcement with current neglect and suggests a city official could suffer a breaking leg to spur reform.
The Chicago Herald notes that after Congress repealed the quinine duty, prices fell from about 4 dollars to 50 cents per ounce, with some sales as low as 35 cents. The piece suggests this may forecast effects of removing duties on other goods like coal and urges Congress to consider such price impacts.
Good work by Whiting. He plans a bill authorizing the issue of fractional currency to ease sending small remittances by mail. Both Senate and House members have petitions, but Whiting is first to formulate a bill.
The piece argues that Republican voters will not be swayed by Mr. Chandler’s appeals. It says they doubt the evil he condemns is as severe as claimed and believe it is waning naturally. It also asserts the Reed party failed to curb the evil when in power, making Chandler’s plan ineffective as political expedient.
Dramatic notes report Mr. Mansfield's solo comedy Mon sieur to be staged at the Globe Theatre tonight with the original cast. The piece debuted in New York's Madison Square Theatre to quick acclaim and crowded houses over nine weeks.
A brief survey of orchestral works to be performed tomorrow highlights Haydn Symphony in C major No 7 with its Adagio Vivace Adagio ma non troppo Menuetto and Finale. It lauds Haydn as a model of style while noting Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso op 66 in Boston next Saturday and Spohr Violin Concerto in D minor No 9 praised by Grove as among his greatest works. Floersheim Lievation announced as to be played in Boston next Saturday
Mrs Winslow offered selections from Beaumont and Fletcher highlighting Philaster and Bellario’s page roles, The Faithful Shepherdess, and The Mad Lover. Critics praised Bellario’s pathos and Mrs Winslow’s grasp of dramatic flow, though some readings and pacing drew critique.
The Rev. E. J. Barrows spoke on A Life on the Plains recounting experiences as a New York Tribune correspondent during Custer’s Yellowstone expedition. He described camp life, buffalo scarcity, soldiers gambling, and harsh Indian hostility, praising General Custer while noting his death stemmed from disobeying orders.
The winter meeting of the H A A has begun with tug of war workouts in the gym. Class of ’88 looks strong to defend last year’s win. In wrestling Bowen may outlast Hunter. middleweight sparring could see Ashe challenging Curtis. Featherweight Grew is expected to fight Dame, Pillsbury may defend rings title, Leavitt favoured in pole vault, and Thornton Woodbury elected secretary of the Intercollegiate Baseball League in New York. Professor Cook remains ill, with Huntington covering lectures.
The February Scribner's features Mendelssohn through Apthorpe notes his purity in performance and resistance to Berlioz, warning readers to value works in their original style. It surveys essays on volcanoes, electoral reform, will and brain, plus fiction by Stimson Bunner and Wendell, ending with Stevenson on idealism and Tolstoi.
A collage of commentary notes on tariffs coal prices and political figures. mentions Blaine Chandler Blair and Corbin. reports on coal costs and a Reading trouble claim. arch note on fashion knee breeches and padded hosiery. references to Booth Barrett and Fanny Davenport La Tosca. wine prices in Edinburgh and gold mining curiosities in Nevada City about a fractured quartz piece containing gold.
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